Why Trump Won’t Do Jail Time
<p>It’s challenging to <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-are-the-legal-cases-against-donald-trump.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">keep track</a> of every case against Donald Trump. More are coming too. As I write this, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@polispandit/video/7143706531232582955?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7215018022432212526" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Fani Willis</a> in Georgia is loading her own grand jury-powered indictment cannon aimed at the 45th President.</p>
<p>None of these cases look good for the Teflon Don. If I were Trump’s lawyer — and thank God I am not — I would strongly advise him to make a deal. He’s supposed to be good at that, right?</p>
<p>Even the weakest and least severe case against him — the alleged political hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in New York — is pretty ironclad. Michael Cohen may not be the most credible government witness in the world, but he was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/nyregion/michael-cohen-trump-grand-jury.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Trump’s loyal fixer</a> for years. Few could directly incriminate him better than Cohen.</p>
<p>Back at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump apparently played musical bathrooms with classified documents, they forgot the number one rule of criminality: <strong>it’s not the crime that ruins you, it’s the </strong><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-charges-linking-trump-more-closely-to-coverup-effort-could-deepen-his-legal-woes" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>cover-up</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Did nobody learn anything from <a href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/watergate/watergate-cover" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Watergate</a>?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be something if all of Trump’s accusations against Hillary and her emails actually boomerang back at Trump?</p>
<p>At a minimum, his accusations from 2016 establish he had knowledge that possessing and retaining classified docs was wrong. Yet when asked to return them, not only did he fail to comply, there’s <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-trumps-new-charges-in-the-classified-documents-case" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">new evidence</a> he actively evaded government requests for the documents by moving them (all caught on his own video tapes) and then attempting to delete the security footage.</p>
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